YT: China's first buildings made with 3D printing technology were put into use in Shanghai recently.
Without using a single piece of brick and a tile, ten gray-color buildings were erected in Qingpu District of Shanghai earlier this month.
Looking from a distance, the buildings that were made with 3D printers are not different from the regular ones. But on a closer look, their walls seem like layered cakes with hundreds of gray layers piled up together.
The wall bodies were printed out by 3D printers which were developed by the Suzhou Yingchuang Science and Trade Development Co., Ltd. in east China's Jiangsu Province.
"The building materials are all printed out by our 3D-printers layer by layer and we piled them up. All the layers are firmly connected with each other. They won't separate, neither will they deform and collapse," said Ma Yihe, president of Suzhou Yingchuang Science and Trade Development Co., Ltd.
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oohlalasassoonMike Brady is rolling in his grave.
HugeJerksays...It doesn't seem all that useful to 3D print walls, since there are traditional building techniques that have better results and are likely quicker.
The only way I could see this being advantageous is if you can roll the printer into a job site and it can build the walls with a single worker.
EMPIREsays...I'm pretty sure the future intentions for this technology is to have a printer you can move to the site, and it would build the entire house structure over several days.
But of course this still needs a lot of work... those walls look terrible and rough as hell, and they're almost completely hollow, so unless they filled it with insulating foam, the thermal properties of the building must suck.
IF this type of technology reaches the point where it can build houses as good as a regular one, AND it can also reduce the price by a good chunk... then it will have a huge impact on construction. This and also the pre-built structure format. Let's not forget the chinese built a 30 story hotel in just 15 days, two years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdpf-MQM9vY
It doesn't seem all that useful to 3D print walls, since there are traditional building techniques that have better results and are likely quicker.
The only way I could see this being advantageous is if you can roll the printer into a job site and it can build the walls with a single worker.
theali*related http://videosift.com/video/Behrokh-Khoshnevis-Contour-Crafting
mxxcon@mintbbb, not "world's" 1st, but "China's" 1st..
There are other 3d printed buildings before China.
mintbbbOK, sorry, was just relying /copying the title from one of the sites. Hope this one will do
@mintbbb, not "world's" 1st, but "China's" 1st..
There are other 3d printed buildings before China.
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